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The History Department Book Talks Series presents "Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History" with Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn.
What happens when migrants are rejected by the host society that first invited them? Foreign in Two Homelands explores the transnational history of Turkish migrants, Germany's largest ethnic minority, who arrived as "guest-workers" between 1961 and 1973. By the 1980s, amid rising racism, neo-Nazis and ordinary Germans blamed Turks for unemployment and argued they could never integrate.
Their homeland, however, ostracized them as culturally estranged "Germanized Turks." Through archival research and oral history interviews in both countries and languages, Kahn highlights migrants' personal stories and reveals how many felt foreign in two homelands.
Date: Wednesday Dec. 11
Time: 10 - 11:15 a.m.
Location: Zoom
RSVP: Here
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